@Damienracer said:

@karellen said:

The actors do a fine job, the two leads (Blunt and Krasinski) have real on screen chemistry, the children are ok, especially the girl, the setting and atmosphere are moody enough, the tension is there but the starting premise is stupid: some (alien) predators manage to almost wipe out all of mankind while the world's armies can't figure out how to defeat basically some huge bats? Really? No sonic weapons for monsters that rely on hearing? Come on.

Normal sized bats are deadly enough. Conceiving of a baby in this world is what is the stupidest thing about this movie.

this also, but at least it's plausible

all the military forces in the world being defeated by animals it's not

@Damienracer said:

@karellen said:

@Damienracer said:

@karellen said:

The actors do a fine job, the two leads (Blunt and Krasinski) have real on screen chemistry, the children are ok, especially the girl, the setting and atmosphere are moody enough, the tension is there but the starting premise is stupid: some (alien) predators manage to almost wipe out all of mankind while the world's armies can't figure out how to defeat basically some huge bats? Really? No sonic weapons for monsters that rely on hearing? Come on.

Normal sized bats are deadly enough. Conceiving of a baby in this world is what is the stupidest thing about this movie.

this also, but at least it's plausible

all the military forces in the world being defeated by animals it's not

Animals? The army being defeated by an alien horde they've never trained for is plausible, having sex thus giving birth (without contraception) to the one thing that will get you killed in a world overrun by sound addicted aliens ISN'T. You seriously need to reevaluate how you critic these types of films. You can't control or predict what awaits in space, but you can control the sex you have and the outcome of it.

if you say so, it must've been a hell of a horde, billions of them, locusts swarms, given the fact that a shotgun blast is enough to kill one Anyway, I fail to see the point in arguing the levels of silliness , to each his own. For you it's the unprotected sex, for me it's the military part.

@Damienracer said:

@karellen said:

The actors do a fine job, the two leads (Blunt and Krasinski) have real on screen chemistry, the children are ok, especially the girl, the setting and atmosphere are moody enough, the tension is there but the starting premise is stupid: some (alien) predators manage to almost wipe out all of mankind while the world's armies can't figure out how to defeat basically some huge bats? Really? No sonic weapons for monsters that rely on hearing? Come on.

Normal sized bats are deadly enough. Conceiving of a baby in this world is what is the stupidest thing about this movie.

I liked this movie a lot! But yes! I'm glad someone else said it...I kept thinking "who the hell would conceive a baby in such a nightmare world? What an irresponsible thing to do!"

Again...I liked it...but that aspect of the movie bothered me!

@NorthernLad said:

@Damienracer said:

@karellen said:

The actors do a fine job, the two leads (Blunt and Krasinski) have real on screen chemistry, the children are ok, especially the girl, the setting and atmosphere are moody enough, the tension is there but the starting premise is stupid: some (alien) predators manage to almost wipe out all of mankind while the world's armies can't figure out how to defeat basically some huge bats? Really? No sonic weapons for monsters that rely on hearing? Come on.

Normal sized bats are deadly enough. Conceiving of a baby in this world is what is the stupidest thing about this movie.

I liked this movie a lot! But yes! I'm glad someone else said it...I kept thinking "who the hell would conceive a baby in such a nightmare world? What an irresponsible thing to do!"

Again...I liked it...but that aspect of the movie bothered me!

Where/when did they have sex if their kids were around all the time? That should be a bigger issue than them actually having a baby.

@karellen said:

if you say so, it must've been a hell of a horde, billions of them, locusts swarms, given the fact that a shotgun blast is enough to kill one Anyway, I fail to see the point in arguing the levels of silliness , to each his own. For you it's the unprotected sex, for me it's the military part.

I really don't see why people take the time to write so much about films that they obviously hate. What if it was a horde of aliens, complete with superior technology and the element of surprise on their side? When you question the premise of a film that fails your expectations, it's an easy win because the premise is the foundation of the movie. And seeing how we aren't told how the earthlings lost to the aliens, your perspective really comes off self-serving on the "silliness" argument. You don't even argue your side especially well, you just ask easy questions of a film that owes you nothing (since on its own merits, the film is ironclad).

@Damienracer said:

Animals? The army being defeated by an alien horde they've never trained for is plausible, having sex thus giving birth (without contraception) to the one thing that will get you killed in a world overrun by sound addicted aliens ISN'T. You seriously need to reevaluate how you critic these types of films. You can't control or predict what awaits in space, but you can control the sex you have and the outcome of it.

What if they did it with contraception, and it was an accidental pregnancy anyway? Believe it or not, these things do happen to people!

EDIT: For these people, the world has ended..... the human mind doesn't always make the best decisions under such duress and confusion. Not excusing their doing the "one thing that will get (them) killed," just stating that they don't live in an ideal world, that's all. Any number of things could have happened to cause them to have another pregnancy.